Chapter 114 Performance
Other employees who wanted to perform also came, and they even designed simple shapes, some wearing hats (straw hats), and some with towels wrapped on their heads. I didn’t know what it meant, but after listening to the explanation, I realized that the ones wearing hats were playing devils, and the ones wrapped in towels were playing farmers. The show was about farmers beating devils, which is called “beating devils” for short.
Now that everyone is here to perform, let’s all go to the workshop to perform. When the group entered the workshop, the employees and their families knew they were here for a performance, and they applauded enthusiastically as soon as they entered.
Although there was no host, the director walked to the middle to ask everyone to be quiet and said a few polite words before the official performance began.
Lao Wei came on first, announced the curtain by himself, and recited "We Working People Are So Glorious"
"The hungry people, the people with brain holes are steaming and shutting up the cages, the people with brain holes are hard at work and have tasted the food early~~The hungry people~~." (Please translate by yourself)
Dialect, the audience are all from Ngee Ann, and most people don’t speak Mandarin. Anyway, I felt that they heard it very clearly and very passionately. Dai Qianqian and the others really didn't understand it. They had heard this article in other places before, but when Old Wei thought about it like this, they had no impression at all.
Luo Cheng understood. This 'Mandarin' dialect is really interesting. It's a very ordinary recitation. If you leave it to future generations to learn and recite, it will make people laugh to death.
After the show is over, the performers have to close the show themselves.
"Langsong, the hungry men, the clever ones, the clever ones, are imprisoned in cages~~doomed."
After finishing his concluding remarks, Old Wei sat down with the workers. He also wanted to watch the show.
The second program, Fighting the Japs, featured workers performing in the workshop. It was also announced first that the show we were performing was "Fighting the Japanese".
And regardless of whether the content is exaggerated or not, Luo Cheng loves to watch it anyway. Those who performed the devil almost made the devil look like a fool or a blind man. Employees will not perform without physical objects and just use their side effects to make things happen.
For example, the actor who played the role of a farmer held a brick and said, "I saw a Japanese coming. I found a brick and hid behind a tree. The Japanese didn't notice me and came closer."
Then the farmer walked up behind the devil and pretended to hit the devil on the head with a brick. The monologue started again: ‘I hit him on the head with a brick and opened the flower. I killed a Japs. ’
A few people put on a performance, in which the peasants beat the Japanese to death in various ways, and the people present were shouting yes, as if the Japanese should be killed by the peasants simply.
Luo Cheng wanted to laugh, but he found that he was not qualified to laugh. Because the show he is about to perform is actually nonsense, and is even essentially the same as the show he is performing now.
In the second program, all kinds of devils were killed. Anyway, all the ways of death that could be thought of were used. After more than a dozen ways of death were performed, it was over. The applause for this show was even warmer than the first one. People of this era like to watch this.
Seeing the performers leaving, Luo Cheng also came on stage with some embarrassment.
"Hello everyone, the show I am performing is "My Comrade Zhang San""
Following the instructions of others, Luo Cheng started to speak.
I have an old comrade named Zhang San who was born in a small village. His mother was only born after 18 months of pregnancy. At that time, people said that a monster had been born in the Zhang family, which means that the child was pregnant for eighteen months.
And something magical happened. He could call his parents in three months, walk in five months and run in six months. The most important thing is that he can eat and his body grows quickly. At the age of six, he is as tall as a teenager. He could eat ten kilograms of rice in one meal, and the Zhang family couldn't support him at all, so they kicked him out of the house and left to fend for himself.
Guess what, this three can be eaten, but it is extremely powerful. He was kicked out of the house and went directly to the mountains. On the same day, he killed a wild boar on the mountain with his bare hands.
That was really magical power. Just like that, Zhang San became famous. As he grew up, he became even more amazing. He could run faster than a car. He could jump up to the wall of our factory and pass by in a swish.
Then one day, Zhang San was looking for a tiger in the mountains and wanted to kill the tiger and eat it. However, the Japanese quietly entered the village and killed all the villagers, including Zhang San's family.
This was a serious matter. Although his parents kicked him out, there was no way he could support him. But after all, I gave birth to him and raised him, so this revenge must be avenged.
Zhang San was a man who could run faster than a car. It was easy for him to catch up with the Japanese, so he chased him on the spot. After seeing the Japanese, before they could react, they rushed forward and punched him. Guess what, he punched directly through the body, from the back to the chest. This force was really strong.
When one of the Japs died, the other Japs naturally reacted and picked it up to fight. An even more magical scene happened. Zhang San's reaction speed was so fast that the bullet could not hit him at all. And a few times he came close to a Japanese soldier, grabbed the Japanese soldier's arm, squeezed it, and bent it. Then he grabbed the devil's chest with both hands and exerted force suddenly. The devil was torn in half like a piece of cloth, and all the contents in his stomach fell to the floor.
It's not enough to tear one of them apart. There are still a dozen or so Japs, and they all have to be torn apart. No one could escape, they were all torn apart.
Later, Zhang San became addicted to killing Japanese. Where he could kill more Japanese, he naturally joined the army.
Luo Cheng just blew the scenes in later anti-Japanese dramas. He had no talent to begin with, but the factory director asked him to brag to make up for it. If it wasn't for a little bit of dignity, he could have said that he was the protagonist of the Japs with Hands.
As soon as the bragging is finished, no, it should be as soon as the story is finished. This applause and discussion are even better than the previous anti-jail program.
Seeing this scene, Luo Cheng could only complain in his heart. No wonder there is a market for so many shocking anti-Japanese dramas in later generations, and older people still like to watch them. The root problem may lie here.
Luo Cheng went down to find his two sisters, and sat on an old tire. The two sisters looked at him with admiration, almost asking him to come again. Especially when I'm tearing up the devil, it's so refreshing and exciting to listen to.
The show in the factory was over, and it was the turn of the art troupe.
This is all about singing a song in chorus, with a crisp voice, and a smiling expression to match the singing. Luo Cheng looked at Dai Qianqian and thought her smile was so pretty, pure and sweet.
The second program is still a song, but it is not synthesized, but duet. Singing is a very fashionable program in this era. The audience, regardless of whether they can sing or not, likes to hum along. Even if I don’t understand what is being sung, I still think it sounds good and interesting.
After singing two songs, the third program was actually related to singing, but it was just one person singing and three people dancing. Tan Meng sang, her voice was sweeter, and the other three danced.
Looking at Dai Qiqian dancing gracefully, Luo Cheng wanted to tie her up. He had definitely made a lot of money in the past three years. But in this era, you can't do such a thing for three years. It's time to try the peanuts.
The fourth program has a simple and clear name, "Fighting".
Dai Qianxi is the leading role. First, she fights with another person. They are all fighting skills in the army. Although this is a show performance, it is a routine. There is a process for how to fight. But if you don’t have certain skills, you won’t be able to perform well. Sweeps, backflips, and a feeling of punching the flesh.
The person who fights against Dai Qianxi will definitely not be able to beat him in the plot, and then another person is added, two against one. Now even performing is more difficult for Dai Qianqian. But he still seemed to be able to do it with ease, occasionally fighting off one and then quickly attacking the other.
In the end, the performance turned out to be not one against two, but one against three. It was very difficult, and she had to swim, and even Dai Qianxi was knocked to the ground. When a carp jumped up, it flipped up instantly. Even the performance was thrilling to watch.
Aren't art soldiers supposed to be literary and weak? Luo Cheng looked at Dai Qianxi, who he had a crush on, and felt that he should start with his appearance and end with his appearance. If you offend someone, if you take action, you won't be beaten to death. This is the same woman who just sang and danced and looked like she could cry for a long time if she was slapped.
The end of the fighting performance also means the end of this local performance. Unlike later generations, there are plans for how many programs control how much time.